What do you do when your other half never wears an expensive niche perfume bought extravagantly as an extra birthday present ?
Spray it on his sheets.
That way you get to reap the benefits, in this case a fresh, nutmeg aldehydic, very clear frankincense fragrance (with some admittedly niche-ish trope-ish citric and coniferous facets that presumably put him off – someone was also coughing next to him in a theatre one night when he was wearing it so he never touched it again).
But I have reaped the secretive benefits. A lovely incensey white musk labdanum that lingers on clothes over morning coffee – it lingers on the cat, as well, who is always on the bed
-all in all a subtly pleasurable and vicarious experiment for me to which he has been absolutely none the wiser
Love it when our two cats smell delicately of perfume ….
Me too – mixed up with the delightfully smelling fur
By the way, in case anyone is wondering, we sleep on two individual futons in separate sheets / coverings etc right next to each other like two Egyptian sarcophagi, because..
well because we like it that way and also because I feel the cold WAY more and my princess and the pea mega blankets would rightly be insufferable for him.
Mine stench of Parfum D’Hermes, geranium oil and my own rich smell ; his currently of this perfume and the odour of sanctity
We all have our ways. I like to spray perfume on my sheets too, but no one else sleeps on them except for me, and right now I’m fine with that.
You are secretly scenting yourself !
Ps which perfumes work PARTICULARLY well on sheets would you say ?
My mom used to put Yardley Old English Lavender talcum powder on the mattress cover ( under the fitted sheet). Quite clean and serene as I recall.
Nowadays my sheets reek of the husband and his Cool Water – yours sound much more posh 😆.
both are marvellously evocative – the Yardley mattress sounds like heaven – the Davidoff kinda hot
What do I do when the nose of my beloved rejects all my perfumes? ,Guerlain, Caron, Hermes, Goutault, comme des garcons…all my precious vintage scents down the drain. She has a veeery sensitive smelling sense.
She is very vegan and earthy. She adores bathing and loves all the woody bath oils, something called Kader. As she is as eigengereid (dutch for headstrong) as I am … Being over 70 I see no salvation in Nose Battles. For now I wear the scent I picked at her place, but it is no great shakes! All the other times I just wear my own perfumes. Do I go shopping with her??
It sounds like the perfect compromise ( if a bit austerely over hair shirt )
There shall be NO L’Heure Bleue hosings of those hallowed sheets
Thanks. Maybe we should go on a bathing extravaganza! But I don ‘t like the commercial spa’s and wellness centers.
At the moment my fysical condition is not at all vomme il faut. I feel like I have to pull myself out by the hairs!!
Not good to hear..
I hope you have a turnaround soon.
Maybe an aromatherapeutic bath might actually help ? ( I hate ‘wellness’ anything – one of the worst words to creep into the annoying lexicon in recent times )